Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 455 Super Shipyard

Manila is located in the south of Luzon Island, and its location is roughly the same as that of Zhenwa City in Xintang Kingdom.

Moreover, the city of Manila is also located in a huge harbor, which is even bigger than the harbor on the other side of Zhenwa City.

It has been a Spanish colony since the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, and its colonial history is more than [-] years earlier than that of Batavia.

However, the defense of Manila Port is not as terrifying as Batavia. There is not even a bastion here, just a castle plus a few rows of separate forts.

The city of Manila is not as easy to defend and difficult to attack as the city of Batavia. There is no moat here, and the city walls are not as high as Batavia.

In short, Manila is far behind Batavia in terms of defense and scale.

This may be a reflection of the comparison between Spain and the Netherlands in terms of maritime strength.

Spain has already sunned down, and it is about to die, and its maritime strength is even worse than that of England.

However, the Netherlands is thriving and is approaching its heyday. Its maritime strength can be said to be invincible in Europe.

Without Daming and his help, Spain would definitely be overthrown by the emerging countries such as Britain, France and the Netherlands!
Taichang scanned everything in Manila with his binoculars, and he couldn't help sighing inwardly.

A super colonial power, even a super colonial power that dominates all the colonies in the world, has crippled itself in just over 40 years!
I have to say that this is a lesson, a profound lesson.

It is really dangerous for one person to single out the whole world.

No matter how powerful it is, it must have allies, or in other words, thugs!

He must properly train and train this thug, or in other words, make good use of this "ally".

Thinking of this, he turned his head and said to Carlino: "I can only send it here. After you go back, think about the covenant. I believe that your majesty the king will agree to Ming with us after reading your letter." We have formed an alliance, and as soon as his reply arrives, we can sign the alliance."

At this time, Carinho was actually filled with emotion.

The navy of the Ming Empire is really too powerful, especially this kind of iron-clad battleship, which is invincible in naval battles.

At least, the Spanish navy has nothing to do with this kind of iron-clad battleship right now, and even these twenty iron-clad battleships can destroy their entire Spanish navy!

With such a powerful force, it is naturally better to form an alliance with them than to be their enemy. Even if they will be used by them, or even suffer a little loss, it is better than defeat in the end.

Alas, there is no way, the world is like this.

If you are weak, it is your original sin. If you are weak, you will be beaten.

At this time, their Spain is already extremely weak, and all European countries are fighting around them. They must form an alliance with the Ming Empire to hope to turn defeat into victory!
Thinking of this, he nodded solemnly and said, "Your Majesty, I understand. I will definitely consider the matter of the covenant."

Taichang nodded slightly, then waved and said, "Go."

Carlinio hurriedly stroked his chest and bowed, and then led a group of entourage to the lower floor of the Aegis under the guidance of Jin Yiwei.

At this time, the people of the Spanish ocean-going fleet, including the guards of Manila City, were frightened by the fleet of the Ming Empire.

They really did not expect that the Ming Empire would suddenly send such a powerful fleet to Manila.

The fleet of the Ming Empire is really terrifying. There are forty or fifty ships and gunboats alone!

There are also those terrifying iron-clad warships, one is scary enough, and there are twenty of them!

There are also warships on both sides of the giant ship, which are so dense that they cannot be counted.

If people are here to attack Manila, they don't have to think about how to defend it, because they simply can't defend it!
It only takes a few salvos from the buildings, ships, gunboats, and their fleets, their forts, their forts, and all their defenses will be finished.

Fortunately, they didn't come to attack them.

At this moment, the relationship between Spain and the Ming Empire is still relatively friendly, and their ocean-going fleet has just delivered goods from the Ming Empire. The Ming Empire will definitely not beat the Dutch like they did, and they will be beaten up violently if they are caught.

What's more, people have already put out the semaphore, and they are here to send people off.

That's right, Taichang is here to send Carlinio off.

The reason why he came here with such a huge fleet is also to let the people of the Spanish ocean-going fleet see the strength of the Daming Navy.

These guys will definitely tell people when they go back, and everything they see will surely reach the ears of the King of Spain.

In this way, the King of Spain would not choose to be an enemy of Ming Dynasty.

However, he didn't come here specially to see Carlinho off.

The reason why he came to Luzon with such a huge fleet was to go to Dongfan to choose a site to build a civilian shipyard, or a super shipyard.

Right now, Daming has no shortage of materials, people, or money.

The reason why the shipbuilding ability or the number of new ships has not been able to increase is mainly because he is afraid of leaking secrets, and he is afraid that others will learn the steam engine technology, so he dare not build shipyards outside of Wubei City.

Needless to say, he was a little nervous.

It is true that the steam engine technology should be kept secret, but you can't tie your hands and feet for the sake of keeping it secret, even dare not build a shipyard.

That's overkill.

Daming already had the ability to build hundreds, thousands, or even thousands of ocean-going ships a year, but now he made Daming's shipbuilding ability inferior to that of a small Netherlands in order to keep it secret.

Why bother?
To put it bluntly, the strength of Ming Dynasty does not depend on the secrets of steam engine technology, but on weapons and equipment, the number of ships, and the number of troops.

These are the manifestations of Daming's strength.

As for the steam engine technology, in fact, even if he keeps it secret, he can develop it himself.

Historically, European countries have developed steam engines without any reference.

Therefore, this secrecy can only be kept for a while, not forever.

He couldn't tie his hands for secrecy.

At this time, he should let go of his hands and feet, frantically build ships, frantically snatch sea resources, and frantically suppress opponents!

As long as the strength is invincible, so what if people learn the steam engine technology?
After figuring this out, he only felt enlightened.

Isn't it easy for Daming to build a ship now?

As long as you find a large enough place, build enough docks, dig enough waterways, equip enough machine tools, and recruit enough manpower, it will not be a problem to build a thousand or even thousands of ocean-going ships a year.

For this place, he decided to be in Dongfan.

Because Dongfan is located in the middle of Dongyang and Nanyang, it is more convenient to transport timber from Dongyang and Nanyang, and Dongfan is an island, so it is easy to maintain limited secrecy.

As for where it is built in Dongfan, we have to go to the field to investigate.

After Taichang sent Carinho back to Manila, he led the navy fleet all the way north.

Dongfan is not far from Luzon. The northernmost point of Luzon and the southernmost point of Dongfan are actually less than a thousand miles away, and there are many islands in the middle.

In other words, it would take one day for the fleet to depart from the northern tip of Luzon to the south of Dongfan.

Of course, a huge port must be built at the northern end of Luzon. As for the south of Dongfan, there are Dongfan Qianwei and Dongfan Zuowei, and a port was originally built next to these two acropolis. The expansion of the two ports is enough.

In the afternoon of that day, he conducted a field survey in the north of Luzon, and selected the location for the construction of a large port. Early the next morning, he led the fleet to leave Luzon and go straight to the east.

(End of this chapter)